Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 3 | Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed . |
| 4 | But recognition of this dawned only slowly on the still immense proportion of ‘ Hitler believers ’ among the population . |
| 5 | If you do medical negligence work the employment of a nurse , perhaps only on a part-time basis , can save hours of wasted time and be very cost effective . |
| 6 | Probably too much so on the political side , in so far that er er looking back , it seems that w w we were isolated from other young people , in so far that we were associated with straight political er activity and er straight political movement . |
| 7 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 8 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 9 | The bass sounds good , although lack of internal screening means that unwanted noise is sometimes a problem — less so on the humbucking back pickup — and generally it copes with styles from driving rock to funky , thumb rattling sounds and smoother , jazzy tones . |
| 10 | I have never spent so long on a single project . |
| 11 | Especially not on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 12 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 13 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 14 | The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip . |
| 15 | Policy remains in the hands of people who do not have disabilities and who are frequently so far on the other side of the experiential divide between people with and without disabilities that ‘ objective policies ’ — that is , those which ignore the experiential divide — simply serve to reinforce the notion of disability rather than the values and abilities of those who are different . |
| 16 | I was surprised , yet strangely pleased , to discover that the worst seller so far on the exemplary , semi-underground techno label Network has been ‘ Mood ’ / ‘ Science of Numbers ’ / ‘ Tear Drops of Yesterday ’ by Symbols And Instruments . |
| 17 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 18 | And so far on the mammoth project the TSDO troops have been sent in successfully thousands of times . |
| 19 | Childhood memory is however typically family-centred , touching only haphazardly on the unattached . |
| 20 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 21 | In focusing so sharply on the literal meaning Andrew largely avoided the central issue for a Christian analyst of the Old Testament : in what ways was its interpretation affected by the life of Christ and the establishment of the Christian Church ? |
| 22 | Most frequently accessed data are stored on the magnetic media and less frequently on the optical media with backup also on the optical . |
| 23 | With good meteorological predictions , directed Anti-parachute flights might be confidently undertaken , perhaps even on a commercial basis . |
| 24 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 25 | We shall examine in particular the extent to which recent changes in the NMGC represent survival strategies predicated primarily on the assumption that the organisation should continue and only secondarily on a clear conception of the service which it can should provide . |
| 26 | and it draws so oddly on the sexual |
| 27 | My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by , in effect , my own annihilation . |
| 28 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |
| 29 | The fact of being ‘ family ’ is no guarantee that people can live together happily on a long-term basis , and almost any other good ‘ care ’ arrangement that can be made for an elderly person is better than a cat-and-dog life with relatives , where there is no common ground for agreement , and constant quarrels make home life a misery . |
| 30 | Lyon will be alright then the might be all right but right over on the Italian branch it might be all right mmm yes |